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The Pentagon's New Spies
Post Date: 2006-08-03 14:10:09 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The Pentagon's New Spies The military has built a vast domestic-intelligence network to fight terrorism -- but it's using it to track students, grandmothers and others protesting the war Last October, before the public learned that president Bush had secretly ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without a court order, the Pentagon approached the Senate intelligence committee with an unprecedented request. Military officials wanted the authority to spy on U.S. citizens on American soil, without identifying themselves, in order to collect intelligence about about terrorist threats. The plan was so sweeping, according to congressional sources who reviewed it, that ...
Stupid, Incompetent, and Obsolete - Military analyst Anthony Cordesman rips the strategy of Israel and the U.S.:
Post Date: 2006-08-02 00:09:54 by Morgana le Fay
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Most modern combat...will be wars against enemies that use terrorism, insurgency, and asymmetric tactics and fight at the political and ideological level. Winning will require victory at that political and ideological level, and in the tactics of shaping the psychological, perceptual, and media dimensions of the conflict. Defeating the enemy will not be more important than winning the support, or at least tolerance, of the population. Local, regional, and global perceptions of the conflict will be as important in sustaining a war, and in terminating conflict on favorable and lasting terms, as the number of enemies captured and killed. Israel has so far failed to understand this in ...
Immorality, Inc.
Post Date: 2006-08-01 19:50:41 by Arete
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Washington, DC, in the 1980s was called the "murder capital of the world," but that designation now belongs to Baghdad, where the number of people killed since the end of the war is approaching 42,000. The US had hoped to reduce the numbers of troops in the capital, but the incredible violence of the city has instead prompted the usual response in the age of Bush: more troops, more rules, and more martial law — and there isn't a person not on the payroll of the occupation willing to predict that this new "show of force" will settle folks down. Much of the chaos is due to wanton immorality by the occupying power, and also to what the media like to call ...
Bush's Musical Video For the Israeli Massacre
Post Date: 2006-07-31 23:25:00 by tom007
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6805063692754011230
Robert Fisk: 'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'
Post Date: 2006-07-31 11:21:26 by aristeides
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Robert Fisk: 'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?' Published: 31 July 2006 They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. " Mehdi Hashem, aged seven Qana," was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay. "Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 Qana", "Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one Qana.'' And when the Lebanese soldier went to pick up Abbas's little body, it bounced on his shoulder as the boy might have done on his father's shoulder on Saturday. In all, there were 56 corpses brought to the Tyre government hospital and other surgeries, and 34 of them were children. When they ran out of plastic bags, they ...
DEBUNKING CONSPIRACY THEORISTS [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-07-30 20:44:14 by wakeup
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Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event there will usually be at least one, often several, wild conspiracy theories which spring up around it. "The CIA killed Hendrix", "The Pope had John Lennon murdered ", "Hitler was half Werewolf", "Space aliens replaced Nixon with a clone", etc, etc. The bigger the event, the more ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which circulate in relation to it. So it's hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have spawned their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is sadly a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these ...
The Chalabi Factor
Post Date: 2006-07-30 16:21:36 by peteatomic
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Friday 28 July 2006 Their man - the dissident leader who sat behind the first lady in the president's box during the State of the Union address in which Bush prepared the country for war - appeared to have been working for Iran all along. - James Bamford, "Iran: The Next War" Ahmad Chalabi has been many things to many people over the last several years. Officials in Jordan considered him to be a petty criminal, convicting him of 32 counts of bank fraud and sentencing him in absentia to 22 years in prison. Chalabi was, for a time, the leader of a manufactured dissident group called the Iraqi National Congress, and received millions of American taxpayer dollars thanks to the ...
Real Terrorists
Post Date: 2006-07-29 22:06:39 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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»»» Real Terrorists Several different investigations into who the real terrorists and criminals have been (and still are) here in the "Homeland" are presented. 1 Dateline NBC - CIA Ricky Ross 10:33 http://www.americandrugwar.com/media/source/news/ricky_ross_sm.rm 2 Ed Bradley (60 Minutes) - Tulia, Texas 13:17 http://www.americandrugwar.com/media/source/news/tulia_60_min_sm.rm 3 Sacred Cow - Tommy Chong in Taft Prison 21:03 http://www.sacredcow.com/media/source/drug_war/chong_short_bg.rm 4 Drug Wars 12:27 http://www.prisonplanet.com/video/141204drugwar.WMV 5 Barrie Zwicker's Pearl Harbour & 9-11 Lies 8:28 http://movies0 ...
The US: Too late for empire
Post Date: 2006-07-29 10:13:46 by Starwind
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The US: Too late for empire By Jonathan Schell (This article, which will appear in the August 14/21 issue of The Nation, is posted here with the permission of the editors of that magazine.) Anyone who wants to write about the constitutional crisis unfolding in the United States today faces a peculiar problem at the outset. There is a large body of observations that at one and the same time have been made too often and yet not often enough - too often because they have been repeated to the point of tedium for a minority ready to listen, but not often enough because the general public has yet to consider them seriously enough. The problem for a self-respecting writer is that the act of ...
A few questions for the long-time posters
Post Date: 2006-07-29 05:19:24 by Nintendo of the Gods
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I was recently digging into the history of the LP startup and I was just curious about some miscellaneous questions, if anybody cares to answer one or more: -- I notice most of you other guys' tag lines are in tiny letters. Does that effect require a special program? What does TOS mean? Who started FreedomUnderground? What poster runs LibertyFlame? Why does it always seem so empty? Is LibertyForum of the same ilk as LP,F4,FU, and LF? Are there any other major forums beside the ones mentioned above(besides FR)? Ann Coulter mentioned Free Republic on TV the other day, and according to an internet traffic-tracking site, Liberty Post has been gaining ground on ...
Buchanan: Israel's Vietnam syndrome
Post Date: 2006-07-28 13:41:33 by Brian S
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Behind the U.S. refusal to support a cease-fire in the Israeli-Hezbollah war lies a stark reality. Israel needs more time to attain its strategic goal: Cleanse Lebanon, south of the Litani, of Hezbollah fighters and Katyusha rockets. A cease-fire in place means Hezbollah wins the war. Yet, one day after Israel lost nine soldiers and 22 wounded in an ambush outside a town it claimed to have taken, its cabinet appears to have given up on sending in the army. Israel is going to rely on air power and artillery to root out Hezbollah, which means that Israel will fail. And if the IDF is not going in, the United States should support a cease-fire now. For U.S. interests are at rising risk. The ...
Has Israel Dealt Iran A Winning Hand?
Post Date: 2006-07-28 12:44:58 by Brian S
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July 27, 2006— - Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group a global political risk advisory and consulting firm. He is also the author of "The J Curve: A New Way To Understand Why Nations Rise & Fall. Market watchers, persuaded that Israel's war on Hezbollah will not spill over into Syria and Iran, have moved on. They are now fixated instead on August 22, the date by which Iran's ruling clerics have promised to respond to a Western-sponsored incentive package intended to halt Iran's uranium enrichment program. That, market players believe, is the next red letter day for oil prices. But Israel's military offensive and Iran's nuclear strategy are hardly unrelated. The ...
Crusade in a New Setting?
Post Date: 2006-07-28 12:42:32 by Brian S
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Arab and Muslim countries are being subjected to savage attacks, which are reminiscent of the brutalities of the Tartars of the Middle Ages or Crusaders before that. The only difference is that Israel takes the place of Tartars and Crusaders. The Western threat is also looming over Syria and Iran whom the West blames for the present bloodshed in the region. The West also continues meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan apart from creating trouble in Darfur and threatening Sudan with sanctions. The Westerners are also upset because the Islamic Courts forces have succeeded in bringing back considerable amount of peace and security to Somalia. The American-supported Israeli terror acts have, ...
Israeli attack on UN post: "accidentally on purpose"? Shades of the USS Liberty affair.
Post Date: 2006-07-26 23:18:13 by Brian S
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Deadline Pundit July 26: Accidentally on Purpose With the Israeli bombing of a UN camp and the killing of four UN peacekeepers, we really do seem to be in a "deja vu" all over again phase. Already UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is under attack for condemning the "apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a UN Observer post." It is reminiscent of the trouble his predecessor Boutros Boutros-Ghali got himself into last time the Israelis tried shock and awe on Lebanon back in 1996, when he failed to suppress a report that said pretty much the same thing about the IDF shelling of the UN post in Qana, which macerated some 106 Lebanese civilians to death. ...
The History of War is the History of Lies
Post Date: 2006-07-26 11:49:42 by lightmind
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Signs of the Times for Mon, 24 Jul 2006 Signs Editorial: The History Of War Is The History Of Lies Joe Quinn Signs of the Times 24/07/2006 The public record is replete with 'historical' accounts of the cause and effect of the many wars enjoyed by the sprawling masses of humanity. A little known fact however is that, from the point of view of accuracy, the public record stinks. Spinning the truth about the reasons for war has always been easy. With the major media magnets donating large sums to political parties, and war reports pre-approved by military press liaison officers, military, government and media quickly take on the appearance of one big, happy family. In the case of the ...
They simply can't stop lying, can they?
Post Date: 2006-07-26 09:49:13 by Zoroaster
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July 26, 2006 They simply can't stop lying, can they? Is There a Stronger Word Than "Hypocrisy"? By WILLIAM BLUM There are times when I think that this tired old world has gone on a few years too long. What's happening in the Middle East is so depressing. Most discussions of the eternal Israel-Palestine conflict are variations on the child's eternal defense for misbehavior -- "He started it!" Within a few minutes of discussing/arguing the latest manifestation of the conflict the participants are back to 1967, then 1948, then biblical times. I don't wish to get entangled in who started the current mess. I would like instead to first express what I see as two ...
The Voice of the White House 24 July
Post Date: 2006-07-25 13:29:42 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C., July 23, 2006: “I have been discussing the total penetration of Israeli top level coded communications, both diplomatic and intelligence. Now, let us turn our attention closer to home where rampant rumor has it, and has been having it for some time now, that even the most secure of secret government sites are being broken into. We know who is breaking into the Israeli sites but the identities of the domestic site-breakers is not known…but guessed at by many. Fifteen year old boys or crazed anti-Bush left-wingers do not figure in the very short list of suspects. Try an alphabet agency, why not? For some time, B.A.E. Systems has been running a series of ...
Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts
Post Date: 2006-07-24 06:22:48 by Kamala
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Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts By Bill Douglas 07/13/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- I began researching the mainstream media coverage of the controversy regarding the attacks of 9/11/2001, when reading an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Newspaper, dated June 29th, 2006. It was titled, "Sept. 11 claim stirs UW probe -- Instructor says U.S. planned the attacks to provoke war." This led to my discovery of some wild conspiracy theorists that endanger our government and media establishments, with quite frankly insane assertions. I'll address this in full in the final paragraph. Then by using a "google video 9/11" search, I recently viewed ...
Kristof, One of Few to Criticize Extent of Israel's Bombing Campaign, Returns With 2nd Column
Post Date: 2006-07-23 13:38:01 by Brian S
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NEW YORK Nicholas Krisof, one of the few major mainstream (or even blog) columnists to criticize the extent of Israel's bombing campaign against Lebanon, returned with a second column on this theme for The New York Times on Sunday. He opened by recalling how friends of Israel had supported the 1982 invasion of Lebanon on much the same grounds heard today, and that turned into a disaster for the long-term secruity of Israel -- for one thing, it spawned Hezbollah. . "Today again, Israel believes that it is improving its long-term security by attacking Lebanon. And once again, I believe, that will prove counterproductive," Kristof writes. "Israel is likely to kill enough ...
Israeli crimes against humanity: Gruesome images of charred and mutilated bodies following Israeli air strikes
Post Date: 2006-07-23 11:52:15 by Zipporah
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Israeli crimes against humanity: Gruesome images of charred and mutilated bodies following Israeli air strikesCommentary by Michel ChossudovskyJuly 21, 2006 As Safir Newspaper Beirut. and Uruknet.info We bring to the attention of Global Research readers photographic evidence of Israeli sponsored atrocities. Charred and mutilated bodies following Israeli air strikes: While these gruesome images have been released by acredited news agencies including Reuters, Agence France Press and the Associated Press, they are casually dismissed, they are not considered as "reliable evidence" of war crimes. There is, in this regard, a deliberate media coverup of Israeli sponsored crimes and ...
Cynicom quits LP [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-07-23 01:15:12 by Nintendo of the Gods
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post #20 That sucks. Their smartest posters get so disgusted they abandon ship over the multitude of retards LP has recently been overrun by. But I can't blame him, or the other guy that left on this thread also, Phant2000(#29). Take a look at the photo in post #15 and read the continuing statements of some of these nice, decent folks(notice nobody responds to it directly). LP has become like a political and moral Twilight Zone or something since the Gaza shellings broke out.
Richard Cohen: Hunker Down With History (greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake)
Post Date: 2006-07-22 06:46:54 by Zipporah
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Hunker Down With History By Richard Cohen Tuesday, July 18, 2006; A19 The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself. This is why the Israeli-Arab war, now transformed into the Israeli-Muslim war (Iran is not an Arab state), persists and widens. It is why the ...
America’s Bread and Circuses – Schools and Jails
Post Date: 2006-07-21 08:40:10 by Phaedrus
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Although not always considered a bastion of 100% reliable knowledge, the Wikipedia offers a definition for "Bread and Circuses": "...government policies to pacify the citizenry" America’s bread and circuses are easy to spot: public schools and jails. (Some might argue that America’s bread and circuses are food stamps and war. It would be difficult to argue against that. Our nation has multiple instances of bread and circuses. Don’t you feel blessed?) I’d like to offer an observation of the school and jail bread and circuses that I doubt you’ve noticed. First, a quick review of the fundamentals. The Schools Are Not Failures Those who view ...
No, this is not 'our war'
Post Date: 2006-07-20 22:28:37 by RickyJ
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My country has been "torn to shreds," said Fouad Siniora, the prime minister of Lebanon, as the death toll among his people passed 300 civilian dead, 1,000 wounded, with half a million homeless. Israel must pay for the "barbaric destruction," said Siniora. To the contrary, says columnist Lawrence Kudlow, "Israel is doing the Lord's work." On American TV, former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says the ruination of Lebanon is Hezbollah's doing. But is it Hezbollah that is using U.S.-built F-16s, with precision-guided bombs and 155-mm artillery pieces to wreak death and devastation on Lebanon? No, Israel is doing this, with the blessing and without ...
LOSING THE MARRIAGE DEBATE
Post Date: 2006-07-20 16:22:58 by Tauzero
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LOSING THE MARRIAGE DEBATE by Selwyn Duke July 20, 2006http://NewsWithViews.com It’s no secret that liberals hold in contempt what they regard as the provincial nature of conservatives. And I certainly would love to buy liberals for what I think they’re worth and sell them for what they think they’re worth, to paraphrase the old retort. That said, a part of me is so frustrated with my traditionalist brethren that I could almost be persuaded that the Left is, in some minute measure, correct. For the sagacity reflected in our ends is matched by the stupidity of our means. And the left is quite the opposite. I have often mentioned the manipulation of language and cautioned ...
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